This is a Vagrant 1.6.3+ plugin that adds a vSphere provider to Vagrant, allowing Vagrant to control and provision machines using VMware. New machines are created from virtual machines or templates which must be configured prior to using using this provider.
This provider is built on top of the RbVmomi Ruby interface to the vSphere API.
- Vagrant 1.6.3+
- VMware + vSphere API
- Ruby 1.9+
- libxml2, libxml2-dev, libxslt, libxslt-dev
version: 0.13.0
vagrant-vsphere (version: 0.13.0) is available from RubyGems.org
Install using standard Vagrant plugin method:
$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-vsphere
This will install the plugin from RubyGems.org.
Alternatively, you can clone this repository and build the source with gem build vSphere.gemspec
.
After the gem is built, run the plugin install command from the build directory.
The requirements for Nokogiri must be installed before the plugin can be installed. See Nokogiri's tutorial for detailed instructions.
The plugin forces use of Nokogiri >= 1.5.10 to prevent conflicts with older versions of system libraries, specifically zlib.
After installing the plugin, you must create a vSphere box. The example_box directory contains a metadata.json file that can be used to create a dummy box with the command:
$ tar cvzf dummy.box ./metadata.json
This can be installed using the standard Vagrant methods or specified in the Vagrantfile.
After creating the dummy box, make a Vagrantfile that looks like the following:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.box = 'dummy'
config.vm.box_url = './example_box/dummy.box'
config.vm.provider :vsphere do |vsphere|
vsphere.host = 'HOST NAME OF YOUR VSPHERE INSTANCE'
vsphere.compute_resource_name = 'YOUR COMPUTE RESOURCE'
vsphere.resource_pool_name = 'YOUR RESOURCE POOL'
vsphere.template_name = 'YOUR VM TEMPLATE'
vsphere.name = 'NEW VM NAME'
vsphere.user = 'YOUR VMWARE USER'
vsphere.password = 'YOUR VMWARE PASSWORD'
end
end
And then run vagrant up --provider=vsphere
.
The bulk of this configuration can be included as part of a custom box. See the Vagrant documentation and the Vagrant AWS provider for more information and an example.
Currently the only implemented actions are up
, halt
, destroy
, and ssh
.
up
supports provisioning of the new VM with the standard Vagrant provisioners.
This provider has the following settings, all are required unless noted:
host
- IP or name for the vSphere APIinsecure
- Optional verify SSL certificate from the hostuser
- user name for connecting to vSpherepassword
- password for connecting to vSpheredata_center_name
- Optional datacenter containing the computed resource, the template and where the new VM will be created, if not specified the first datacenter found will be usedcompute_resource_name
- Required if cloning from template the name of the host containing the resource pool for the new VMresource_pool_name
- the resource pool for the new VM. If not supplied, and cloning from a template, uses the root resource poolclone_from_vm
- Optional use a virtual machine instead of a template as the source for the cloning operationtemplate_name
- the VM or VM template to clonevm_base_path
- Optional path to folder where new VM sould be created, if not specified template's parent folder will be usedname
- Optional name of the new VM, if missing the name will be auto generatedcustomization_spec_name
- Optional customization spec for the new VMdata_store_name
- Optional the datastore where the VM will be locatedlinked_clone
- Optional link the cloned VM to the parent to share virtual disksproxy_host
- Optional proxy host name for connecting to vSphere via proxyproxy_port
- Optional proxy port number for connecting to vSphere via proxy
To clone from an existing VM rather than a template, set clone_from_vm
to true. If this value is set, compute_resource_name
and resource_pool_name
are not required.
To set a static IP, add a private network to your vagrant file:
config.vm.network 'private_network', ip: '192.168.50.4'
The IP address will only be set if a customization spec name is given. The customization spec must have network adapter settings configured. For each private network specified, there needs to be a corresponding network adapter in the customization spec. An error will be thrown if there are more networks than adapters.
The name for the new VM will be automagically generated from the Vagrant machine name, the current timestamp and a random number to allow for simultaneous executions.
This is useful if running Vagrant from multiple directories or if multiple machines are defined in the Vagrantfile.
- 0.0.1
- Initial release
- 0.1.0
- Add folder syncing with guest OS
- Add provisoning
- 0.2.0
- Merge halt action from catharsis
- 0.3.0
- Lock Nokogiri version at 1.5.10 to prevent library conflicts
- Add support for customization specs
- 0.4.0
- Add support for specifying datastore location for new VMs
- 0.5.0
- Allow setting static ip addresses using Vagrant private networks
- Allow cloning from VM or template
- 0.5.1
- fix rsync on Windows, adapted from mitchellh/vagrant-aws#77
- 0.6.0
- add support for the
vagrant ssh -c
command
- add support for the
- 0.7.0
- handle multiple private key paths
- add auto name generation based on machine name
- add support for linked clones
- 0.7.1
- fixes rsync error reporting
- updates locales yaml
- restricts rbvmomi dependency
- 0.7.2
- includes template in get_location (from: tim95030 fixes issue #38)
- updates Gemfile to fall back to old version of vagrant for if ruby < 2.0.0 is available.
- 0.8.0
- Adds configuration for connecting via proxy server (tkak issue #40)
- 0.8.1
- Fixes #47 via olegz-alertlogic #52
- 0.8.2
- fixes no error messages #58 leth:no-error-message
- fixes typo #57 targetx007
- fixes additional no error messages
- 0.8.3
- Fixed "No error message" on rbvmomi method calls. #74: mkuzmin:rbvmomi-error-messages
- 0.8.4
- Use root resource pool when cloning from template #63: matt-richardson:support-resource-pools-on-vsphere-standard-edition
- 0.8.5
- fixed synced folders to work with WinRM communicator #72 10thmagnitude:master
- 0.9.0
- increases Vagrant requirements to 1.6.3+
- Supports differentiating between SSH/WinRM communicator #67 marnovdm:feature/waiting-for-winrm
- 0.9.1
- reuse folder sync code from Vagrant core. #66 mkuzmin:sync-folders
- 0.9.2
- Instruct vagrant to set the guest hostname according to Vagrantfile #69 ddub:set-hostname
- 0.10.0
- new optional parameter to clone into custom folder in vSphere #73 mikola-spb:vm-base-path
- follows semvar better, this adds functionality in a backwards compatible way, so bumps the minor. 0.9.0, should have been a major version.
- 0.11.0
- Create the VM target folder if it doesn't exist #76 marnovdm:feature/create_vm_folder.
- 0.12.0
- Use a directory name where Vagrantfile is stored as a prefix for VM name #82 mkuzmin:name-prefix.
- 0.13.0
- Find and install box file for multi-provider boxes automatically #86 mkuzmin:install-box & #87 mkuzmin/provider-name.
This plugin follows the principles of Semantic Versioning 2.0.0
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature
) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature'
) - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature
) - Create new Pull Request
Please run the unit tests to verify your changes. To do this simply run rake
.
If you want a quick merge, write a spec that fails before your changes are applied and that passes after.
If you don't have rake installed, first install bundler and run bundle install
.
The Vagrant vSphere Provider is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE.txt.
This software was developed by the National Snow and Ice Data Center with funding from multiple sources.